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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 08:30:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On 2 Oct 2024 07:29:49 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 03:05:23 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2 Oct 2024 02:40:51 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Democracy leads to mediocrity and worse.
>>> 
>>> “Democracy is the worst system in the world ... apart from all the
>>> others.”
>>>     -- Winston Churchill
> 
> You have this implicit assumption in the USA that you are the best in
> the world at everything. Therefore if you do something badly, nobody
> else can be doing it better.
> 
> Quite a few other countries manage to do democracy better than you; why
> not learn from them?

You keep making the assumption that I consider democracy a good thing.